CORONA VIRUS HAS EXPOSED MALICIOUS LEADERS; People In Countries With Prolonged Lockdown Might Rise Up And Overthrow Their Governments

CORONA VIRUS HAS EXPOSED MALICIOUS LEADERS; People In Countries With Prolonged Lockdown Might Rise Up And Overthrow Their Governments

• ·         Spain, China, Italy and USA Lost More People During Lock-down 
  

  

  Indian prime minister Narendra Modi might face a backlash from the 1.3 billion people he has confined in their homes

By the time of writing this article (17^th March 2020) the countries that had embarked on a very strict lockdown regime had lost more people than those with lesser restrictions

Spain, Italy and the United States have lost more people than Brazil, Nicaragua, Belarus, and Sweden which have no restrictions at all. 

What does this mean?

This simply means that lockdown or no lockdown the covid-19 can still spread and decimate the population. 

This fact is also an indictment on the world health organization and its experts who failed to find appropriate measures to curb the covid-19 epidemic.  Some of us actually agree with the American president Donald Trump’s views that the WHO should have acted much earlier than they did to stop the pandemic. 

The question which will forever torment the WHO is ‘How could a disease break out in November 2019 be identified as a global threat in February 2020?’

If the WHO had acted in, let’s say, December, then the appropriate action should have been to isolate china from the rest of the world.  It would have saved the hundreds of people who have perished around the world.

The young Chinese man who first reported about the emergence of the virus in November was arrested and reprimanded by the Chinese authorities and warned not to make what they termed as ‘unnecessary alarm’.

In February 2020, the corona virus claimed the life of this vigilant 33 year old Chinese whistle blower. This means that the Chinese government in probable connivance with WHO played politics with the corona virus by concealing the truth about its emergence.

This conspiracy also explains why any talk or divergent opinion about the virus has been criminalized in most countries. Yet a solution can be got from those divergent opinions, notwithstanding whether they are scientifically based or simply observed opinions (like this one)

Therefore president Trump is right on condemning and reprimanding the WHO, but it’s not a good idea that he stops funding it. 

Is The lockdown effective

As stated at the beginning of this article the massive shutdowns around the world don’t seem to have the desired effect. According to the evidence got from figures of deaths and infections in most of the countries that have been hit hard by the virus, more people have died during the lockdown than when opened up.

An observed fact is that this virus can be fought without a lockdown. By simply observing social distance and testing at all airports, strict hygiene etc, the virus can be contained.

In fact the Chinese government was fast enough to realize that the lockdown was not a solution to the corona virus and opened up.  Wuhan where the virus was first experienced has now been open for several weeks but the rate of infections and deaths have not increased at all.

Yet when Wuhan was having a lockdown hundreds of Chinese people perished. The South Korean government was also quick to realize and opened the transport system by allowing the trains, taxis and metros to move freely despite of the fact that it shares borders with china.

 In fact I hold a strong view (and time will absolve me) that the world health organization might have misled the world by recommending the lockdown as a weapon to fight the covid-19.

Last week American president Donald Trump openly disagreed with the health experts who were coming up with all sorts of crazy recommendations. The American president openly told the journalists that he would NOT put on the mandatory face mask.

Dictatorships Have Unleashed Terror

The corona virus has exposed the dictatorial regimes in terms of how they have applied the restrictions and the lockdown.

Many of them have used the corona virus as an excuse to torture the population with very harsh restrictions.  Countries that have not lost a single person to covid-19 have embarked on a ruthless lockdown putting the livelihood of the citizens on line. 

On 14^th march 2020 the Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni made a speech where he revealed that he knows that the Uganda’s tropical climate cannot allow the virus to blossom the way it does in temperate climate. He also said that he is convinced that Uganda cannot be overwhelmed by the corona virus but at the same time insisted that he has enforced the lock-down to discipline Ugandans a lesson! 

''am not fighting corona virus but fighting indiscipline of the Africans'' he sarcastically stated

The same President Museveni  also told Ugandans that exercising can avert the corona virus , but he at the same time stopped Ugandans from jogging.! What a contradiction!

although most ugandans are facing starvation arising from the shutdown , the Ugandan leader stoped any ugandan from distributing food to the vulnerable people.

he promised to charge anyone helping poor starving Ugandans with attempted murder.  

its important to note the food that the NRM government has distributed has been found to be substandard. there are reports that the beans distributed were found to be rotten

All this has left Ugandans without a doubt that the Ugandan president is not acting in good faith.

Although Uganda has not lost a single person to the virus, the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has unleashed the military to enforce a complete shutdown up to 5^th may 2020. Yet countries that have been hard hit are already opening up.

Uganda has recorded around 55 cases (BUT NO DEATHS) of the covid-19. It’s imperative to note that almost all the cases have been imported from abroad.  If the Ugandan leader was very alert like he is trying to portray himself, he should have closed Entebbe airport to stop the importation of the virus.

But he embarked on a shutdown first before he closed the airport.

 

But the good news is that some of the infected Ugandans who had been quarantined have healed from the corona virus. This exposes president Museveni’s prolonged lock-down as a malicious act.

If the NRM government was acting basing on the Ugandan circumstance, then it would have enforced a partial shutdown and not a complete lock-down.

It also means that if the Ugandan government had closed the borders and airport in time, there would NEVER have been any corona virus in the country.

Approach By Humane Governments

On the contrary some governments have not made alarming restrictions.  The governments of Belarus, Nicaragua, Sweden and Brazil have all refused to embark on the lock-down.

The Brazilian president Brosonero who has openly defied the covd-19 experts and reasoned that people have to get to work, covid-19 or not

The Tanzanian president john Pombe Magufuli actually refused to order a lockdown even when his country has registered some cases of the virus.  He reasoned that the lockdown might have more long-term devastating socioeconomic effects than the covid-19.

At the same some malicious leaders like the Indian leader Narendra Modi have extended the period of the lockdown for another month, putting the lives of his people at total risk of starvation.

With time it’s safe to speculate that the lock-down might kill more people than the corona virus.

Spain which has registered more deaths than India has relaxed the restrictions and allowed people to get to work. 

Germany chancellor Angela Markel has already made contingent plans for opening up and allowed students to do exams.

This demonstrates the fact that the complete shutdown of the economies of the world is completely unjustified.

Alternative measures

Bearing all this in mind, it will not be surprising if people pour on the streets in protest about the prolonged lock-down. There is a high chance that some governments might fall during this covid-19 pandemic.

We have already seen such a uprising in the state of Michigan where people have opposed the lock-down.

 It’s safe to predict that countries like India where Narendra Modi has prolonged lock-down for   might get an uprising from the Indian people. This is based on the fact that it quite a task to confine 1.3 billions people in thier homes without food and other essentials in life.

It’s probable that the Indian people will rise and kick him out of power.  

And you cannot rule out the domino effect that the uprising will have in hugely populated countries like Nigeria, India and most of the African countries with crude dictatorships.

According to the scientists, the vaccine that could heal the corona virus will arrive in 18 months from now. So does this mean that countries will be in lockdown for another 18 months?

The way forward

Governments must not simply enforce lockdown without basing on their circumstances. Why should a country shutdown when it has no single death to corona virus.

Partial lockdowns should be applied together with social distancing measures. Otherwise one cannot rule out the possibility that as the lockdown continues to takes its toll, people will run out of patience and overthrow their governments.

OBSERVED FACTS

• ·         Although scientists have come up with alarming facts about the corona virus, it has become clear that they are not well versed with all the facts concerning the corona virus.

• ·         There is an observed fact (not a scientific one) that the virus thrives in temperate climates of Europe, Asia and the Americas which experience vey cold winters than the HOT tropical climates. This explains why Africa and South America have not experienced large number of deaths.

• ·         There is a trend showing that the virus can thrive with or without lock-down. For instance Spain, Italy and the USA have suffered more deaths even when they are under lock-down than when open. This shows that the virus is selective in its choice of target.

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    Some people who have contracted the virus have healed even when there is no known vaccine to treat it. This means that although it’s extremely dangerous, a percentage of people can survive it even when they have contracted it.  Like all the other epidemics, the corona virus will kill some and leave some, vaccine or no vaccine , lock-down or no lock-down.

The author Fred Daka Kamwada is a journalist and a blogger

kamwadafred@gmail.com